Transcript Advanced Surveillance & Acquisition Monitoring System (ASAMS)

Advanced Surveillance & Acquisition Monitoring System (ASAMS)
Brought to you by JOSH Transportation Systems
The ASAMS incorporates the latest in advanced audio/video (A/V) surveillance and target
acquisition. Comprised of a central evidentiary-based video analytics engine and DSP
camera, accessorized with advanced multi-stage self-resetting surge protection devices
and communicating over a myriad of network types for local and remote A/V recording
operations, the ASAMS provides unparalleled A/V capture and evidentiary capabilities not
realized with other systems.
As an integrated system, the ASAMS can operate effectively in both peer-to-peer and
Enterprise networks. In peer-to-peer networks the cost of integration is simplified and can
operate very effectively utilizing the field-equipment’s video engine, embedded network
video recorder (NVR) and linked remotely to an application PC running an A/V player
providing for live and archival playback and utilizing advanced target search analytics.
In the Enterprise, the ASAMS can operate most effectively utilizing the combination of the
field equipment’s video engine, server-based NVR and enhanced domain share
capabilities via player client apps for multiple simultaneous live and archival playback
while utilizing the advanced target search analytics.
Whether monitoring railroad, traffic, public safety or
transit activities or advancing solutions for your extreme
monitoring needs, ASAMS can deliver the advanced
target identification, live and archival playback
capabilities you need for fast and efficient target
identification and transcription in one complete system.
JOSH Transportation Systems can provide the
system knowledge and experience to help you
realize the full potential of ASAMS for your
unique application.
Benefits of ASAMS
ASAMS began life as a proposal to assist the City of Fort Worth, Texas to monitor and
enforce Quiet Zones, monitor gate drive-arounds and report blocked intersections at
railroad crossings. In June of 2005, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) issued
regulations that specify that trains must sound a locomotive horn while approaching all
public railroad crossings. That rule also provides exceptions to those requirements and
enables communities to create Quiet Zones. A Quiet Zone is a section of a rail line that
contains one or more consecutive crossings at which locomotive horns are not routinely
sounded. This helps by keeping train horn noise to a minimum in residential areas while
ensuring that safety is maintained at the crossings. The FRA regulations describe the
requirements that communities must meet in order to implement and maintain a Quiet Zone.
The City of Fort Worth has nearly 200 grade crossings within its city limits. In established
Quiet Zones, the FRA regulations allow locomotive engineers to sound the train horn if
there are persons or obstacles within the railroad right-of-way.
In preceding years, Fort Worth suspected many train horn soundings in their Quiet Zones
were not warranted, where gate drive-arounds were occurring and where emergency
vehicle dispatches and commercial transports were being blocked from crossing.
Until the introduction of ASAMS, the only recourse the City had to monitor train crossing
activities was to use residents and city staffers, accepting their personal observations in
order to challenge railroad companies and locomotive engineers for suspect unwarranted
activities.
Fort Worth needed to create a train monitoring system to
capture video of the railroad crossing area, the train in
the crossing (engine number) and any incriminating train
or vehicular activities, and be portable enough to move it
from location to location to monitor crossings where
unwarranted activities were being reported. The city
wanted to get the audio and video back to City offices for
live viewing and transcribing recorded A/V content from
one or more cameras to evaluate suspect train horn
soundings, gate drive-arounds and blocked crossings.
Because of the remote locations of the Quiet Zones in
Fort Worth, a traditional network connection to City
offices was not an available option. Point-to-point
wireless networks would have required the City to
buildout wireless infrastructure at considerable time and
cost, while realizing this would inhibit portability. Looking
to cellular providers, it became obvious that the video
engine used needed to be state-of-the-art, as bandwidth
would be at a premium in the cellular upstream.
The ASAMS Solution
Shown here is Fort Worth’s first ASAMS system mounted at an established Quiet Zone
crossing. Note the dual camera mounting utilizing fully articulated rotational mounts.
Features of ASAMS
The embedded video engine utilizes state-of-the-art
compression schemes to manage the bandwidth
required for cellular operations and is coupled with
special video stream controls designed specifically for
limited bandwidth and wireless environments such as
cellular. By precisely controlling the bandwidth,
condensing video before transmission and only
transferring when requested, the video engine is able to
transmit extremely stable video in a constrained data
stream. The video engine is also able to synchronize
video and audio in one stream, ensuring that they stay
synchronized for evidentiary purposes.
An embedded military-grade advanced video analytics
option enables the city to record 24/7 while triggering
video detection events across multiple cameras based
upon motion within the view of any one camera so that
events detected by one camera can be used to trigger
another camera. This provides for a wider field-of-view
and enhanced imaging and target acquisition analysis.
In transcription of archival video and audio, specialized
software allows users to playback multiple video files
from multiple cameras synchronized to the timestamps
on A/V files. With the video engine sitting behind a
cellular modem connected to the Internet or connected
to an SNTP-enabled network, the video engine is able
to provide SNTP-based time synchronization for atomic
clock-based date/time stamp accuracy.
Rounding out the solution is the Network Video
Recorder. This provides the heart of the recording
system and the means for recording all the content,
maintaining evidentiary data integrity and supporting all
the features and control sets afforded by the video
engine's portfolio of operations.
Features & Specifications
• H.264 video streaming
• MPEG4/MPEG2/MJPEG video streaming
• Dual IP video streaming
• Support for Unicast, Multi-unicast & Multicast
• Selectable video controls to include constant bit streams, constrained bit streams,
variable bit streams and variable constrained bit streams
• Stereo and monaural audio
• Advanced military-grade embedded multiple target acquisition video analytics engine
• Synchronized audio and video for maintaining A/V data integrity
• Multiple synchronized simultaneous live and archival A/V playback
• MD5 watermark application for maintaining data evidentiary submission
• SNTP date/time stamp integration
• 24/7 A/V recording with target detection archival flagging for lossless archival content
and rapid search transcription
• Local and remote NVR operations
• Remote NVR application server A/V content recovery
• Ethernet to serial/serial to Ethernet transparency
• RS 232/422/485 camera control
• Discrete I/O capabilities for remote sensing and external equipment monitoring
• Programmable and SNMP alarm functionality
• 12/24 VDC, 120 VAC (Euro voltage operation by special order)
Protocols Supported
IP, TCP, UDP, RTP, RTSP, SAP, SNTP, ICMP, IGMP, ARP,
FTP, SNMP, Telnet, Web-server & more…
Additional Information
Static IPs required
Enterprise application should be Multicast-aware for
maximum benefit
For Inquiries Contact
JOSH Transportation Systems, Inc.
[email protected]
(713) 826-0739
[email protected]
(512) 635-5630
Thank you for your interest in ASAMS solutions